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Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott was back in his old Park Cities stomping grounds Thursday night and he met the other Gov. Rick.

Back before he got all up in Florida’s grill, Scott was an SMU law school grad and successful Dallas lawyer and businessman.

On Thursday, GOP National Finance Chair Ray Washburne and Fort Worth civic leader Kit Moncrief hosted a fund-raiser for the Florida gov at Washburne’s Highland Park Village offices and Gov. Rick Perry flew in to attend and to be a guest the following morning on Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo, which broadcast live from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

But there was a personal side to the visit. After the Scott party, Gov. Perry walked across the parking lot to Mi Cocina. There he joined his Dallas-based son and daughter in law, Griffin and Meredith Perry, and the governor’s first grandchild.

But soon enough, the door swung open and in walked Gov. Scott with his posse also looking for a Tex-Mex meal.

The second gubernatorial meeting of the night was unintentional, but, at the end of the evening, the governors ended up sitting together. Along with the two security details, it took five tables to get everybody a chair.

It’s not impossible to get in to see Jon Stewart when he brings The Daily Show to Austin Oct. 27-30, it’s just challenging. The show’s website says all tickets are currently booked.

But I checked with Comedy Central spokesperson Renata Luczak and she emails this tip: “Fans should keep checking this site http://thedailyshow.cc.com/tickets regularly leading up to the week of Austin shows because more tickets may be made available. The ticketing process is the same for tapings in NYC.”

The tickets are free. All shows are overbooked to ensure a capacity crowd, so a reservation does not guarantee entry.

The audience size for each show in Austin’s ZACH Theatre will be about 400.

The Daily Show on location during elections isn’t unusual. “They always go on the road for midterms,” says Luczak. But next month’s broadcast from Austin will be the first time the show has landed in Texas. “They’ve done reports from Texas,” Luczak says, “but this is the first time they’ve brought the whole show.”

Daily Show election coverage usually heads to more predictable political locales like D.C. in 2002 and 2010 or to the Democratic and Republican conventions in presidential election years.

Tuesday’s announcement of an Austin visit no doubt stems from the irresistible one-two punch of Gov. Rick Perry’s mug shot in which he was “criminally handsome” according to Stewart and Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg’s DWI video, in which she was not. Filmed by the Travis County Sheriff’s Department, it shows a defiant Lehmberg restrained in a chair and wearing a spit mask.

Said Stewart, “It’s like the love child of Hannibal Lecter and David Hasselhoff’s cheeseburger video.”

That is Texas-raised model Hannah Ferguson showing off her rocking bikini bod next to Paris Hilton in the new “I Love Texas” TV ad from Carl’s Jr./Hardees.

Ferguson is a discovery of Dallas’ Kim Dawson Agency. Back in February, she was featured in the 2014 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Now she’s the ingénue in the ad for Carl’s Jr./Hardees Texas BBQ Thickburger.

In an homage to Hilton’s 2005 “I Love Paris” ad, a bikini-clad Ferguson washes, or rather caresses, a Ford pickup.

On Wednesday, Gov. Rick Perry will get a chance to visit with Ferguson. She’ll be in Austin with the guv and Carl’s Jr. CEO Andy Puzder to announce that funds from the current Carl’s Jr. Stars for Heroes campaign will go to the Houston-based Lone Survivor Foundation.

“Everything is on the table,” Kinky Friedman said about a possible future gubernatorial run during his Saturday night show at Poor David’s Pub in Dallas.

The Hill Country sage is not only a singer and a songwriter (he’s toured with Bob Dylan), but also a satirist, crime novelist and a cigar-tequila-coffee-salsa pitchman.

In 2006, he got very political with his independent campaign for governor of Texas. (He lost to that Perry fellow.) In 2010, he ran for the Democratic nomination for Texas Agriculture Commissioner but lost.

Presently, he’s in the middle of his Bi-Polar World Tour, which made its Dallas stop at Poor David’s. Next month, the Kinky will be playing a lot of dates in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Ireland, Germany and Austria.

Among those on hand for his Dallas show was former Laugh-In and Sesame Street regular Ruth Buzzi, who lives near Fort Worth with her husband, Kent Perkins, an adviser to Friedman’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

Kinky reports that he has made out his will. He says, “I’m gonna be cremated and I want my ashes spread on Rick Perry’s hair.”